Insights

<p>A few months ago, I conducted a seminar on using library resources for public health reporting. It was presented to students in the UC Berkeley School of Journalism's Reporting on Public Health class.</p>

<p>A selection from the weekend, long and short reads, and a video in today's <em>Daily Briefing</em>.</p>

<p>Once the Great&nbsp;<a href="http://www.bt.cdc.gov/radiation/ki.asp">Potassium Iodide</a>&nbsp;panic began, most Americans received messages saying “Don't Panic” on Twitter, on Facebook, the Internet. And that was the responsible media thing to do, right? Here's what may be wrong with that approach, neurologically speaking.</p>

<p>We are proud to have six California Endowment Health Journalism Fellows among the winners this year of the Association of Health Care Journalists’ Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism.&nbsp;And we are grateful to the AHCJ for offering these valuable prizes. The Health Journalism Fellows'&nbsp;commitment to quality health journalism is apparent both in their selection of topics and their execution of complex pieces. One Fellow, Caitlan Carroll, was honored for Fellowship Project. Others were honored for other work outside of our program.</p>

<p>The other day, Reporting on Health asked its friends to share stories about their best health journalism adventures and misadventures. We made it a contest on our own <a href="http://www.facebook.com/ReportingonHealth">ReportingonHealth Facebook</a> page and offered prizes of a $50 itunes card (1st prize) and <em>In Pantagonia</em>, Bruce Chatwin's adventure saga (2nd Prize).</p>

<p>Why are TB cases declining so dramatically in California? Answers and more in our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>State of the News Media 2011, a comprehensive annual report by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism, tells us a lot about how health coverage has evolved. Some of the data is predictable, but worth highlighting as we think about how we allocate space in our news coverage

<p>Doctor-blogger Jan Gurley introduces her new blog on covering health at the margins of society, muses about why she blogs, and how her doctor and journalist roles sometimes conflict.</p>

<p>Disease, disaster and video games are highlighted in today's <em>Daily Briefing</em>.</p>

<p>We all know that people in the United States spend a lot of time eating. By the latest global estimates, we are among the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/03/AR20110… overweight people on the planet</a>. But we also spend a lot of time talkin